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Mr Reevell said the victim's evidence was that she was told "when she was taken to Beverley that she may be sold to another family, and given descriptions about the way animals are butchered by a man who had her in his car with a knife".

Hull Crown Court (Image: Jim Mitchell/Hull Daily Mail)

Tyler had no other previous convictions.

Recorder David Dixon said Tyler had shown a "complete lack of remorse".

He told him: "It seems to me that in the 1990s you came across [the victim] by chance.

"You set about grooming her, you befriended her and bought her gifts.

"That continued, and you started a campaign of gradually touching, by touching of the sort no one would think anything was amiss, but gradually became more, and more, and more.

"You did things behind [her] parents' backs.

"The very nature of your offending required you to be dishonest and secretive."

The judge said Tyler also "gripped her hip in the way an adult male might do if they wanted to show interest in sexual activity with an adult female".

He told Tyler: "She was eight or nine, and you carried that on behind the backs of her parents for some time."